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Many organizations in today’s marketplace run on legacy systems, which brings a new set of challenges to consultants and IT professionals trying to bring about a change in an organization’s operations.

I used to wish I had a perfect definition of Agile — a quick, to-the-point elevator statement I could carry around with me. Then, a few months ago, an event triggered an idea, ultimately curing this predicament.

A Scrum of Scrums is a powerful tool to sync up multiple Scrum teams working toward their individual sprint goals, along with the common goal at the release or product level. This article presents a list of five must-have agenda items for a Scrum of Scrums meeting.

This article aims to address a challenge that some companies face when scaling Agile: managing certain activities that were well handled in the conventional model but do not seem to be accommodated in the Agile framework.

Recently I was coaching a group of project managers toward Agile adoption. Almost all of them were worried about the project manager role. I used this infographic to assure them that their expertise is required -- as long as they do things a little differently.

How can we achieve true business agility if the only department that is Agile is IT? We have found that applying Agile techniques to the ways in which a company approaches their marketing is extremely powerful.

We need a different approach for project intake analysis when Agile is not the only software development method available to choose from. Here we will discuss challenges in several organizational contexts and then present a "lightweight" intake assessment process.

Conducting Daily Scrums with distributed Agile teams requires a different level of attention, especially when they are newly forming. How can we help the teams deal with different time zones and languages?